ReCon Rover=Nice Dead Reckoning Platform
Tread lovers, unite! I just nabbed one of these off Craigslist for $15. New, they're ~$48 most places. Very cool toy, solidly built, with gorgeous heavy rubber treads. Never seen such beefy treads on a toy. Comes with a nice educational "mission" manual and a tape measure to accurately measure and plot a course. There's a calibration routine for precision turn adjustments, so clearly there are wheel (tread) encoders. Plenty of fun as-is, or IMHO a good candidate for hacking. The treads scream Wall-E to me. Obviously it needs a flamethrower and maybe higher voltage for more speed/power. I can't beat these well-done videos.
